About this Add-on

After the Deadline uses artificial intelligence to check spelling, style, and grammar. Use it to check your tweets, find mistakes in your email, and socialize with confidence. Click the ABC icon in the lower-right corner of an editable area to proofread your writing.

1. How well does it work?

After the Deadline works very well. No technology can catch all mistakes. The focus of After the Deadline is to catch common mistakes without flagging correct text. Our spelling, style, and grammar demonstrations will give you an idea of what After the Deadline will help you with. Read The Design of a Proofreading Software Service to learn how AtD compares with Microsoft Word.

2. Who makes this add-on?

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, develops After the Deadline and hosts the service it relies on. We want you to have access to good proofreading tools, no matter where you write.

3. How should I test After the Deadline?

The best way to test After the Deadline is to try it on your writing. Find a large blog post or letter and paste it in.

Developer’s Comments

Early Access to Updates

Most updates to this add-on will be available on our early access page about a week before they show up here.

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Privacy Policy

After the Deadline is a software service. This means when you click the AtD button, your writing in that text area is sent, encrypted via SSL, to our server where it is processed for errors. Our intelligent checking is data intensive making it impossible to do the same checking locally in your browser.

Single line text input boxes (where passwords and credit card numbers typically go) are ignored by this add-on.

If there is a form with information you don’t want to accidentally send to the After the Deadline server, right-click on the page and deselect Use AtD on this site. This will permanently disable After the Deadline on that site.